One small error, such as listing the name of a former employer after the years worked there, instead of before, can ruin a great candidate's chances.

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Plus Social Intelligence has proprietary technology for linking people with pseudonyms or online names they might use in place of the offline name known to their employer.

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In January, mailings for the card asked prospective cardholders to provide the name of their company, the nature of the business, its address and its federal employer identification number.

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Companies already know a tremendous amount about you in the name of generating credit scores and assessing your risk not only for your employer, but also health insurers, mortgage lenders, banks, and the like.

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"The worry is that adding any encryption would hit performance, and performance is everything, " said one security director of a financial institution attending the talk, who asked not to have his name or employer revealed.

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Following the custom of past meetings, those that took the microphone identified themselves by their name and hometown, without mentioning their employer.

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Clicking on the names brings up further details on the person, including a short biography, phone number, email address, prior employment history, description of current employer and links to press articles, SEC filings and other publicly available documents where the name appears.

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